Thursday, April 14, 2011 @ 5:00 p.m.BB&T Colloquium on Capitalism, Ethics and LeadershipStan Litow, IBM: Beyond Responsibility: The Role of Corporate Citizenship in Modern Business1524 Van Munching Hall, Frank AuditoriumCollege Park, Md. On Thursday, April 14, 2011, Center for Leadership, Innovation and Change (CLIC) at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business will host the BB&T Colloquium on Capitalism, Ethics and Leadership, with featured speaker Stanley S. Litow of IBM.

Lead smarter. That’s the goal with strategic management, which can help managers detect the early indicators that strategy isn’t working. In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, Dr. Oliver Schlake talks about management strategy.

The Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland is proud to announce that first-year Smith MBA student Lakshmi Sankar and her team placed first at the 2011 Sony Marketing Strategy Case Competition, held February 18–19, 2011.

tudents get some realistic advice about how to break into the sports business.

The year 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of IBM, and students, faculty and staff at the Robert H. Smith School of Business heard just what it took for the company to reach its centennial.

The 2010 to 2011 season of the CEO@Smith Speaker Series came to a close on April 12, 2011, as Baltimore native David Rubenstein spoke to an audience of more than 250 students, faculty and staff at the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

The world-premiere of a rap video is not your typical event for the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Another case competition – another honor for University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. This time a team of second-year MBA students participated in the ACG Cup Case Competition and was declared winner, impressing the judges with their analysis of case study and presentation skills, in February 2011.

Risk was the hot topic at the Inaugural Smith School and IBM Business Analytics Workshop held in Van Munching Hall on Friday, March 4, 2011. Co-sponsored by the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and IBM, the day-long workshop consisted of topics ranging from Department of Homeland Security risk, to aviation safety, to fraud.

Professor Mark Wellman writes about the January 2011 winter study trip to Australia. Americans frequently assume that doing business in Australia is no different from doing business in the US. However, as we have learned on our trip, as well as our visit to the Australian embassy, the two cultures contrast greatly, despite a shared language. Even some common and business terminologies have very different meanings.